STAND. COM. REP. NO. 976-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2650

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2650, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO INVASIVE SPECIES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds, subject to a match by public utilities, to the Department of Transportation for the coordinated removal of Albizia and other invasive trees.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation; Department of Land and Natural Resources; Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species; Hawaiian Electric; and one individual. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Public Utilities Commission.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2650, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2650, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair